When I first moved to Australia from the United States in 2003, I was amazed that there was no such thing here as a 30-year fixed rate mortgage. In the states, if you get suckered into a variable rate mortgage, you’re either financially illiterate, or
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Can you answer these basic questions on the current state of the Australian real estate market? What’s in greater demand, brand new or existing homes? What percentage of buyers are investors, versus owner-occupiers? How much buying activity is currently coming from overseas? How efficiently are
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The European Central Bank (ECB) just announced a huge stimulus program that will pump over $1 trillion euros into the European economy over the next 18 months. The majority of these euros will buy up government bonds, artificially suppressing interest rates. This, in turn, will
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I speak to a lot of aspiring property investors. Without a doubt, the most commonly asked question I hear is, “Where should I buy?” The problem in finding the answer is that everyone has an opinion on where they think is best. The next time
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The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) is now the third bank of the four big banks to forecast not one, but two cuts to the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) cash rate in 2015. Westpac and National Australia Bank (NAB) were the
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I remember hearing Steve McKnight quote one of his mentors, Stu Silver, saying, “If you’re not making offers, then you’re not making money.” That was an “a-ha moment” for me. The most successful investors not only make offers, they make a lot of them. To
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Getting your next investment property loan approved hinges on your ability to form a win-win alliance with your lender. The first rule of creating a mutually beneficial relationship is to put yourself in the shoes of the other party. You need to know from their
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Part 5 of a Five-Part Series with Professional Renovator, Caroline Vass Over the last four weeks, we’ve learned from Caroline how to find, buy, renovate, and sell a quick-cash renovation property. We’ve used one of her recent deals in Geelong as an example of how
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Part 4 of a Five-Part Series with Professional Renovator, Caroline Vass I have interviewed professional renovator, Caroline Vass, over the past few weeks in order to learn the basics of finding, buying and renovating an investment property. One of her recent deals in the Geelong area
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The first investment property I ever sold was easy for me. It was a small unit that I developed in a joint venture with a builder. The market was strong, and even though I had no idea what I was doing, the property sold quickly,
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